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Bath-Time Towel Caddy Embroidery Project

By Ramona Baird on July 10, 2017

PROJECT DETAILS

SKILL LEVEL

Experienced

TIME REQUIRED

05:00

Description

A simple towel and some cute embroidery designs make a useful bath-time caddy.

Project Preview Video

Materials

Towel in choice of color (project used bath-size towel)

Trim to coordinate with towel

White cotton fabric for pocket fronts

Stabilizer to support fabric

Embroidery thread to coordinate with towel color

Hook and loop tape

Sewing thread to match towel and trim

Baby bath products

Designs used in this project

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/DG01

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/DG02

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/DG03

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/DG04

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/DG05

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/DG06

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/DG07

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/DG08

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/DG09

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/DG10

Final Product: What You Will Create

Preface:

A bath towel, some cute embroidery designs, and baby products make bath-time fun for baby and convenient for Mom. This caddy can be made in any size and color to coordinate with a bathroom. Just choose the towel and trim, stitch up the designs, and complete the caddy for baby’s bath. The instruction will show the general steps - you’ll have to decide on the dimensions to personal your project. If you have the four-legged kind of “kid”, make this caddy to hang near the area where pets are bathed. It would be a great gift for a pet, groomer, too.

Step 1:

Gather the materials and read through the instructions before beginning. Print out paper templates of the designs and color sequence. Choose embroidery thread to coordinate with the towel. Because towel sizes differ as well as where you’ll want your caddy to hang, general directions will be given for the project. Adapt dimension for your project for the size bath caddy you will be making.

Step 2:

Measure the towel rack or bar where the caddy will hang. For this caddy, the completed width will be 22” to fit over this towel bar. Open the package of chosen products. Fold up the bottom edge of the towel for the depth of the pocket. Be sure the pocket is deep enough to accommodate the height of the products and tall enough to show off the stitched designs. Decide on the designs to use, print out the templates, and cut out around the designs to plan the placement of the individual pockets.

Step 3:

After the placement has been decided, measure the depth of the pocket (which is the bottom of the towel) and add ½” for a seam allowance. Measure, mark, and cut the towel pocket. Fold the pocket in half and place a pin at the center top. Set this pocket aside until needed.

Step 4:

Press the cotton fabric with spray starch. Hoop the fabric with stabilizer and stitch the first design.

Step 5:

Repeat hooping and stitching the other two chosen designs.

Step 6:

Open up the towel pocket. Lay the designs in the order they were planned for the pocket fronts. Measure around the products to determine the width to cut the embroidered fabric for the pocket fronts. Mark and cut the fabric the dimensions needed for the pocket. For the project, the pocket top and bottom were cut 1” longer than the towel pocket depth and trimmed to size later on.

Step 7:

The embroidered fabrics will now be sewn into position. Place the top edge of the embroidered piece under the top edge of the pocket. Measure to make sure the top cut edge is evenly aligned to the edge of the towel as shown. Pin the remaining embroidered and trimmed fabric as planned for the pockets.

Step 8:

Sew the embroidered fabric to the towel along the towel hem edge. Now, flip the embroidered fabric down and press. Trim the excess fabric; pin the embroidered pieces to the towel pocket along the remaining cut edges. Baste the fabric in place along the remaining cut edges.

Step 9:

Pin the trim over the long edges of the embroidered pieces, turning under about ¼” at the top of the trim. Sew the trim in place as pinned.

Step 10:

Determine the finished length of the towel (the top will get folded to the back side, so measure from where the towel will actually hang on the towel bar). Mark and cut the length of the towel (for the project this was 22”). Fold the sides of the towel to the back side so the final width will measure 2” shorter than the length of the towel bar (that was 22” for the project, so the long edges of the towel were folded back 4”). Place the towel wrong side up and the towel pocket right side down to the wrong side of the towel, matching centers and cut edges. Fold back the sides of the pocket. Meet cut edges and folded sides and pin the pocket to the towel. The pocket will have to be eased to the lower edge of the towel - this allows for the pockets to have room for the products after the pockets are sewn to the towel.

Step 11:

Stitch the pocket to the bottom of the towel using a ½” seam allowance; understitch along the lower edge and then sew the folded sides of the towel in place. Flip the pocket up and pin in place along the sides.

Step 12:

Stitch the towel pocket to the towel at the side edges. Next, position and pin the towel pocket in place at the trim. Be sure to leave enough of an area in the pocket to place the product inside. Sew the pocket to the towel along all the trim.

Step 13:

Plan the amount and placement of the hook and loop tape. You may wish to run it the entire width of the towel, or just in sections as shown. Sew one portion right along the wrong side of the top of the towel. Fold the towel top down the depth as originally planned and pin the remaining sections of the tape along the width of the towel and sew in place.

Step 14:

Add additional trim if desired, running it over the stitching line on the front where the last sections of hoop and loop tape were stitched. Measure, pin and stitch on the trim. To use, wrap the towel over the towel bar and secure with the hook and loop tape and add the products to the pockets.

Step 15:

You may wish to secure the bath-time caddy to the shower door for easily reaching for products while bathing baby, and then hang into position on the towel bar when finished. Everything neat, tidy and always convenient for baby’s bath time.

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Meet the Author: Ramona Baird

Ramona Baird has been in the embroidery industry for over 23 years. She and her husband owned a commercial and retail embroidery store in Arizona for many years. She is an experienced digitizer having been mentored by award-winners Pat Williams and Lindee Goodall. Ramona is a contributor to “Creative Machine Embroidery” magazine having 5 covers to her credit. Ramona has worked for Wilcom America and served many years as Education Director for the American Sewing Guild. With a degree in fashion design, she is able to design and execute patterns which Pat Williams says are “out of the box” in creativity and application. Ramona likes to challenge the boundaries of embroidery and bring new and exciting designs, ideas, and projects to EmbroideryDesigns.com. She wants embroiderers of all levels to increase their skills and enjoyment in using their embroidery machine for gift-making and personal pleasure.

Bath-Time Towel Caddy Embroidery Project

PROJECT DETAILS

Project Preview Video

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